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A/N: = character thoughts

Chapter 20

Hank moved to a chair next to Charles as the other agents left the room and prepared the computer to update Angel�s files.

�Do you want me to disconnect?� Warren asked.

�No,� Charles answered quickly. �You are Cable and Wolverine�s backup. You need to know what the situation is between Wolverine and Halo.� Belatedly he added, �And Cable.�

Nathan frowned and raised a hand in denial, �I�ve haven�t had any reaction to Halo.�

�Yet,� Logan said as he turned to look at Nathan. �We haven�t tested your reaction to her scent.�

�Is it scent only?� Hank asked his hands poised over the keyboard in front of him.

Logan shook his head, �No, it�s scent and taste. Just like Wolvesbane when she first went into heat.�

�Oh, shit. Don�t remind me,� Warren said. �The rooms at the Institute stunk to high heaven wher ser she went.�

�You had it easy,� Logan replied. �You didn�t have her crawling all over you. The first time it happened, she was fourteen. At least Beast was able ta turn it off with a shot.�

Nathan smirked, �From what I was told, it didn�t stop her from getting into your bed.�

�Nothin� happened,� Logan replied with a sideways glance. �I held her down while Beast injected her with some sort of birth control. Took her out o� heat in a few hours.�

Nathan looked at the screen and asked Hank, �Do you still have it?�

�It would need to be made for the individual,� Hank replied, �but I do not believe such a solution is available for Halo.�

�Why not?� Angel asked, joining into the conversation. She was slightly relieved to know that her �condition� wasn�t unknown among these men although she wished they�d go into more detail about feral females since she now seemed to be part of that category.

�There is a strong possibility that your regenerative ability would negate the effects of the serum within moments,� Hank answered. His hands hovered over his keyboard, �I need to know when you first began feeling symptoms of going into estrus.�

�Uhh,� Angel looked at Logan and shrugged, �Saturday afternoon, I guess.�

Hank frowned and typed something into the computer, �Wolverine, when did you first notice her fragrance?�

Logan put his elbow on the table and stared at Angel for a moment before he turned to Hank, �Friday. But I didn�t realize it then. I didn�t know what it was �til last night �fore I went ta bed. This mornin� I confirmed it.�

The surprise was obvious on both Charles and Hank�s faces as they glanced at each other. For Logan to NOT have noticed, or smelled rather, a woman going into the most fertile time of the month was a surprise.

�Explain,� Charles ordered.

�Most women smell � more like what they normally smell like,� Logan replied.

�Their natural aroma increases in strength,� Hank confirmed. �I can verify that. Why did you not realize that Halo had entered her estrus?�

�Because it doesn�t smell like her. It�s not her natural scent,� Logan explained.

�Her body has undergone a change, Wolverine,� Charles said. �It would be a good assumption that her scent might change also.�

�It�s not normal,� Logan stated, �she smells and tastes like marmalade.�

�Marmalade?� Hank said typing into the computer. �As in the preserve made from the pulp and rind of citrus fruits?�

�Yeah. Orange marmalade,� Logan said quickly.

All eyes turned to Angel. A few eyebrows were quirked.

She looked around and said, �I haven�t had any and I don�t have a clue as to why he thinks it�s marmalade.�

�Wolverine, does she also taste like marmalade?� Hank said looking down at his keyboard. If he didn�t have fur covering his face it would have been turning a slight shade of redskinsking such a very personal question about two people�s romantic involvement wasn�t on the normal list.

Logan unconsciously liked his lips, �Yeah.�

�From what locations on her body did you taste this �marmalade� flavor?� Hank continued typing into the keyboard.

�Uh,� Logan hadn�t really expected Hank to ask him that and he could see Angel�s face getting redder by the second. �Everywhere.�

�Explain everywhere please,� Hank responded.

�Inside her mouth, on her skin, inside her,� Logan didn�t want to use a derogatory remark in front of Angel, �uh � between her legs.�

�The secretions of her Greater Vestibular Glands?� At Logan�s frown, he clarified, �Vaginal secretions?�

�Yeah.�

�Cable, do you also smell this marmalade aroma?� Hank asked looking up at the large man seated at the end of the table.

It was obvious that Nathan hadn�t thought about it and his nostrils flared as the breathed in. �Not really. I smell oranges, but she just ate some fruit with oranges in it.�

Hank looked up at the screen and wished the viewer could actually zoom in on the men�s faces. Logan�s eyes looked slightly dilated, but he couldn�t tell on Nathan�s one real eye. He�d ask Bishop to improve the picture and focus on their facial features during the meeting while he prepared his luggage and supplies for the trip to the West Coast. He could use the down time on the jet to go over the data.

�Assuming from previous experience with female ferals, the air in Halo�s bedroom should contain a high content of her pheromones,� Hank looked at Logan who nodded. �Has the room been ventilated or aired out in some way?� Both Logan and Angel shook their heads. �Good, Cable, would you please walk into the room Angel slept in last night?� Hank typed on the keyboard as he entered the information. He felt a sense of frustration. If only the crisis in California hadn�t occurred, her case was unique and required a proper controlled environment for analysis.

�Are you sure this is necessary?� Nathan asked. He didn�t like being a guinea pig and even if he was attracted to Angel, who he already was just because she was a beautiful woman, Logan wasn�t going to just hand her over to him if he could smell her pheromones.

�We need to know if this new development will cause problems, Cable,� Charles commanded. �Wolverine seems to have had long term exposure. He is also a Feral. You are not��

�Hoo, yeah. Found that out,� Angel said under her breath, but the microphone on the laptop picked it up.

��and it would be best if we had more than one source to determine whether she will affect the people in her immediate sphere of influence,� Charles finished.

�You�re not taking her back to the Institute,� Nathan said stiffly. �We need her scanning ability.�

�I will order her return if her hormones are affecting either Wolverine�s or your judgment. You can still carry out your plan of operations if we can obtain the personnel from S. H. I. E. L. D. or I can divert some of the more subtle agents to San Francisco.�

�Oath!� Nathan stood up and stalked into Angel and Logan�s bedroom.

Charles wa a f a few heartbeats after Nathan walked off camera before he asked, �Halo, was there a problem? With Wolverine?� His glance traveled from Logan to Angel, whose face was a rosy shade of pink.

�You heard that?�

�The microphone on your equipment is quiet sensitive,� Charles replied.

�Shit,� she looked at Logan and made an apologetic face.

Logan gave a slight shake of his head, �I�d have to tell them anyways.� He turned to the laptop, �I lost control. I went Feral on her.�

Hank�s head snapped up in alarm, �Halo are you all right?�

�Yeah. He didn�t hurt me that bad,� she responded. She wondered if her face could get any redder than it already was. Thank God, Cable, or rather, Nathan, had left the room. It�d be a little tougher to talk in front of him. She knew he�d heard them earlier in the morning. And Warren � well he was just a little picture on the screen and he was being quiet. She could almost ignore him. And this was important. She�d have to bite her tongue and stop feeling embarrassed. Think of it clinically, as if it had happened to someone else. Charles needed to know because he was her employer and responsible for sending her. Hank seemed to be the only resident medical mutant doctor at the Institute even though he said he was a biochemist. �We were having sex. The adamantium on his bones makes him pretty heavy and he�s strong enough to manhandle me. What little damage I received was mostly a bite and some bruising. The regenerative ability I inherited from Warren, I mean, Archangel, pretty much took care of the damage. I�m fine now.�

�Wolverine, why �� the �why� of the matter was obvious, �� HOW did you lose control?� Hank wasn�t as worried now, Angel seemed to want to dismiss the incident or at least drop the issue, but it was still a concern and could grow to be a problem. �Please start from the beginning.�

�I think it started yesterday afternoon in the Infirmary when I took over watching Halo for the nurse,� Logan began as he went on to tell them the true activities that had occurred the previous afternoon.

Angel could sense Cable, no, she�ll have to remember, Nathan, walking around in the bedroom. She looked across the room and watched him and thought about what he must be seeing. Both beds slept in, but one was much more messed, the one that she and Logan had lain in while they had sex and made love.

Nathan toed a towel that lay on the floor between the beds and sighed. They were wasting time. He didn�t feel attracted to Angel any more than normal. Of course, knowing she was fucking Logan added spice, but she was far too na�ve to be of much interest to him, if they�d met on the street, maybe a one night stand or a pleasant interlude for a few days. Nothing more. When he�d first walked into the room he�d noticed the smell of sex in the room. It was pretty obvious with the way the bedcovers were askew on the one closest to the window. He heard Logan talking about his responses to Angel and smirked. Nothing like having your weaknesses aired to damage your ego.

He kept half an ear to the conversation as he looked at the large curtain across one side of the room. He walked over and opened it to look out at the scenery and the building straight across. He gauged the weaknesses ofir rir rooms. The whole hotel wasn�t very defensible, but it had the location and suites he needed on their arrival. He made a note to himself to check the Internet for a more suitable base of operations, especially if they were to expect company.

In the other room Hank asked incredulously, �You�ve had unprotected sex three times?�

�I�m on Norplant,� Angel replied, �Condoms aren�t really necessary. I assumed that if Lo- Wolverine had regeneration that we didn�t have to worry about STD�s.�

�Stars and garters,� Hank said under his breath as he considered how to explain things to Angel. He raised his voice, �With your new regeneration ability, the contraceptive hormones in the Norplant capsules may not be enough to counter affect your feral hormones now that you are in estrus.� A thought struck him, �Or they may be affecting your feral hormones. This marmalade essence is an unknown quantifier. I will need new samples to determine��

�Hold on a minute,� Angel said angrily. �I can comprehend that the only reason why I was so attracted to someone who is anathema to my ideal of a mate is because I�m now a feral and so is he, but now you�re telling me I could get pregnant�I could BE pregnant?�

�Yes,� was Hank�s succinct reply.

�Why didn�t you tell me this earlier!� she exclaimed.

�It has only recently become known to us that your are a feral,� Hank replied quietly, �nor did I know the status of your relations.�

�Halo,� Charles said, placatingly, �Wolverine is considered to be an Alpha Male in the feral mutant community. Considering your current condition I doubt you would have been able to resist becoming intimate with him. You are in no way at fault for your situation.� Charles thought,

�Oh, God,� Angel groaned as she buried her head into her arms on the table, �I wish I�d never answered your damned employment advertisement.�

There was an uncomfortable silence as the men absorbed her statement.

Nathan had been listening to the conversation from the other room, he hadn�t felt any reaction to her pheromones and felt it was time he returned to the meeting. He�d reached the doorway by the time Angel finished her statement. When no one else spoke, he moved into the room and made his way to Angel.

He placed his hand on her shoulder and said, �I�m glad you did. All my life I have fought against tyranny in all it�s forms, the most insidious uses terrorism to dictate how the rest of us live our lives. The people responsible for coordinating these attacks here in California need to be found and stopped. It will be near impossible without your help.�

Angel raised her face from her arms to look at him, searching his face to make sure he was telling the truth. He bent down and kissed her on the lips, his other hand coming around to stop her from retreating as he forced his tongue into her mouth.

Her eyes widened in surprise staring into his before she moved to begin fighting him off.

Logan consciously stopped himself from surging forward as Nathan forced himself on Angel, but he couldn�t stop the growl that rose in his throat.

Warren, Charles and Hank helpless to stop what was occurring in the hotel room, watched with growing alarm as Angel and Nathan�s kiss continued while Logan looked on in obvious growing irritation.

Angel found her movement restricted, somehow she wasn�t able to move her body although her eyes still blinked and her tongue still moved as Nathan�s tongue plundered her mouth. She could sense Logan�s body tensing up as she heard his growl. He wasn�t immobile. Breathing through her nose she gathered the air to force out a whine of protest.

�Let � her � go,� Logan finally ordered between clenched teeth, his voice reverberating with the growl that emanated from his chest. He could feel his claws moving within his arms just short of breaking the skin.

Nathan abruptly broke off his kiss with Angel and stood straight, releasing his telekinetic hold on her body. He would need all his power to stop Logan. He looked Logan in the eye, practically daring him to attack as he moved to the head of the table and sat down.

Angel shuddered and drew a deep breath. Her arms moved defensively to her chest as she stared at Nathan, her mouth open in surprise.

Logan, refusing to break eye contact with Nathan, asked, �Darlin�, you okay?�

�I think so,� Angel replied, staring at Nathan and rubbing her upper arms, �I couldn�t move.�

�Telekinesis,� Nathan said calmly, �I wanted to be able to move you out of the way if Wolverine attacked me. Halo can verify that I am not influenced by her pheromones.�

There were audible sighs of relief from the laptop as the others realized the reason for Nathan�s actions and the fact that there most likely wouldn�t be a fight.

�Halo?� Charles asked softly.

Angel looked at the laptop and saw Charles� raised eyebrow, a silent question. She turned and concentrated on Nathan. He was tense and his blood pressure was elevated slightly, but he and Logan were still staring at each other in a type of Mexican standoff, refusto bto be the first to look away. His penis was completely flaccid and relaxed against the scrotum in his underwear. There was barely any seminal fluid in his vas deferens. She turned back to the laptop, �Nothing. He�s not aroused at all.�

�What about Wolverine?� Hank asked.

She considered the man across from her as he relaxed and broke off eye contact with Nathan to look at �D �During our kiss, Wolverine�s claws moved forward and he was prepared to attack, but he didn�t. He�s � slightly aroused, but for as long as I�ve known him he�s usually in that condition. He was slightly aroused the first time he and War- Archangel brought me dinner in my room at the Institute. I guess it�s a natural state for him.�

Logan looked at the laptop, smiled wryly and shrugged.

�Do you think my awareness of his physical state may have influenced my attraction to him?� she asked Hank.

�Indubitably,� Hank replied. �As a feral your knowledge that another feral in your area was ready to mate would have been an important factor. Whether an unconscious reaction or not.�

�So I would have been attracted to anyone who showed interest in me or my body?� she asked, trying to figure out the chain of events.

�Yes, your pheromones would have made any male feral in the area react positively to any physical overture,� Hank answered.

�During my physical and CAT scan,� she pressed her point, �you were attracted to me I waI was reacting to it.�

�It is a reasonable assumption,� Hank replied slowly, �I was indeed physically attracted to you, but you gave me no sign that you were interested in me.�

�You didn�t notice the pheromones either,� she stated.

Startled by her revelation, Hank sat back in surprise, �Oh, my, you are correct. This does bear some investigation,� he turned to Charles, �If only for her safety.�

Charles nodded and sighed, �I was already planning for you to travel to Los Angeles, but I suppose you could be diverted to San Francisco.�

�He�s too obvious, Xavier,� Nathan said negatively. �He can come and get whatever he needs, but he�s not staying. He�ll blow our cover.�

�You will both need to attend the meeting on the S. H. I. E. L. D.�s helicarrier,� Charles replied. �Cable, since you are the one who will be attending, you can take Beast back to your lodgings and let him obtain whatever he requires from Halo. I will ask S. H. I. E. L. D. if they can spare some of their laboratory facilities for our use. If not, Beast, you may purchase what you need and set it up in the facility that they are using as their Los Angeles Base of Operations.�

�Yes, sir,� Hank replied.

Charles sighed, �We have already taken up enough time with this discussion. It was important, but there is little that can be done about it until we have further information. You have a long day ahead of you all. Dismissed.�

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